Material for paper-fasteners



(No Model P. H. RICHARDS.

MATERIAL FOR PAPER FASTENERS No. 341,433. Patented May 4, 1886.

IizVanto N, PETERS PholwLilhognphcr. Washington. 11c,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY

DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE RICHARDS FASTENER COM- PANY, OF NEVBRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

MATERIAL FOR PAPER-FASTENERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,433, dated May 4,1886.

Application filed November 4, 1885. Serial No. 181,836. (No model.) i

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden, State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMaterial for Making Paper-Fasteners, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an improved mateo rial from which tomanufacture flexible paperfasteners of the class described and claimedin my application Serial No. 178,073, filed September 24, 1885,whichfasteners consist of two thicknesses united at about the middle, andhave four free ends.

The invention has for its object the furnishing of a fabric from whichthe fasteners may be out out in their completed state, except thegumming; and it consists in the improvements hereinafter described andclaimed.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a side view of a piece of fabric embodying my improvements.Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view, somewhatenlarged, of a strip cut from the fabric. Fig. 4; is a side view of saidstrip. Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively a greatly-exaggerated side and anend view of a small piece of the fabric.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures.

My improved material consists in a fabric, A, Fig. 1, either woven orknitted, having two thicknesses, C and I), which are formed 5 into oneat regular intervals, as at E, Figs. 1 and 2, during the process ofmanufacture. Having been prepared, the fabric is readily converted intoflexible paper-fasteners by first dividing it in lines a a b b aboutmidway between points E, thus producing the strips shown in Figs. 3 and4. From these the fasteners may be cut outin their completed state, asindicated by lines (I, e, and f. Fig. 3 is substantially an edge view ofthe completed fastener, which has the four free ends 2, 4, 6, 5'

and 8.

The method of making the fasteners from this fabric I have fullydescribed, and have claimed in another application of even dateherewith. 5

Of the two kinds of textile fabric above mentioned, I prefer to use thatproduced by the method of weaving. Such a fabric I have shown on a verylarge scale in Figs. 5 and 6. Each of the two parts C and D is composedof the usual warp and filling threads, of which those of the warp are insome wayinterlocked at E with the filling or woof of the opposite part.This is readily accomplished by means of ordinary Jacquard looms bymethods that no are well known to those familiar with that class ofweaving machinery.

The method I prefer is shown in Fig. 6, wherein the warp-threads crossover each other at E, those from end 2 running into end 8, and from end4 into end 6. Two of these threads are designated, respectively, by 3and 5, the woof being designated by 9.

In practice I consider that it will be sufficient if about one-half ofthe warp-threads are crossed, as described, the remainder continuingeach in'the same part C or D.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. The improved materialherein described for making flexible paper-fasteners,it consisting intwo thicknesses of textile fabric, C and D, united at Ein the process ofmanufacture, substantially as set forth.

2. The improved material herein described 8.] for making flexiblepaper-fasteners, it comprising a woven fabric having two parts, C and D,united at Eby the crossing of their threads, substantially as set forth.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

Vitn esses:

FRANK H. PIERPONT, WILBUR M. STONE.

